[OPE-L:4472] Re: Sraffa: a Marxist economist?

riccardo bellofior (bellofio@cisi.unito.it)
Fri, 21 Mar 1997 01:22:30 -0800 (PST)

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At 20:00 20-03-1997, mktitoh@e.u-tokyo.ac.jp wrote:
>>Alan wrote in [OPE-L:4463]:
>>
>>> I agree that Sraffa was a great Marxist.
>>
>>What other "great" Marxist economists have there been who: a) never wrote
>>about Marx, Marxism, and/or Marxist economics, and; b) never claimed in
>>their published or unpublished writings, their lectures or speeches, their
>>private letters, or even informal conversation that they were a Marxist?
>>
>>For those who want to repeat the above assertion, I would like to see some
>>documentary evidence. Is that asking too much?

I think it is clear from informal conversations and unpublished writings he
thought to be a follower of Marx. I think he was not.

riccardo

P.S.: the documentary evidence is in Cambridge, UK

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